Paperback Writer · The Beatles

88 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 25-29 and 37, and 7 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
PAPERBACK WRITER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 51 and 52.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 10 sections: 63 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-88.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDES5S9S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paperback Writer?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Paperback Writer hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Paperback Writer?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 51 and 52.

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